, 1887-09-01
The COST oE A
The Losses in Our Late War Compared
with Those in Other Struggles.

The Losses in Our Late War Compared
with Those In Other Struggles.
A Washington correspondent has been
comparing the statistics of the loss by
death of Union soldiers during the re-
bellion, with the mortality of other wars.
Reports show that the northern and
southern armies met in more than 1000
skirmishes and battles. In 14S of these
conflicts the loss on the Federal side was
more than 500 men, and in at least 10
battles more than 10, 900 men were re-
ported lost on each side. The appended
table shows that the combined losses of
the Federal and Confederate forces, in
killed, wounded and missing, in the fol-
lowing engagements were: Shiloh, a.
600; Antietam, 80, 900; Stone river, 37,-
600; Charlottesville, 2s,00Oi Gettys-
burg, 81, 900; Chickamauga, SO, 900;
McClellan's peninsular campaign, $780,
600, and Sherman's campaign, 1875, 900.
Waterloo was one of the most desper-
ate and bloody fields chronicled in Euro
pean history, and yet Wellington's casu-
allies We're less than 10 per cent, his
losses being 2,432 killed and 95S wounded
ont of over 100, 900 men, while at Shiloh
one side lost in killed and wounded 9,740
Ont Of "a, 600, while their opponents re-
ut their killed and wounded at 9,616,
making the casualties about 30 per cent.
Is. tho great battle Of Wagram Napoleon
] hut about 5 per cent. AT Wurzburg
t.'r French lost but 3 1-2 per cent, and
yyt The army gave up the field and re-
&" ted to the Rhine. AT Racour Mar
aAai SAKE lost but 2 1-2 per cent. AT
Zurich Massena lost but 8 per cent. At
Lngriz Frederick lost but 6 1-2 per cent.
AT Malplaquet Marlborough lost but 10
per cent, and at Families the same in
trepid commander lost but 9 per cent.
At Contras Henry of Navarro was re-
ported us cut to pieces, yet his loss was
less thar 10 per nj At Lodi Napoleon
lost l Ia per cent. AT Valmy Frederick
William lost but 8 per cent, and at the
great battles of Marengo and Austerlitz,
sa%nguinary as they were, Napoleon lost
an average of less than IA Ia per cent.
AT Magenta and Solferino, in 1859, the
average loss of both armies was less than
8 per cent. AT Konigrath, in 1866, it
was 6 per cent. AT Woerth, Specheran,
Mars lie Tour, Gravelotte and Sedan, in
1870, the average loss was 10 per cent,
while at Linden Gen. Moreau lost but 4
per cent, and the Archduke John lost but
z per cent. in killed and wounded.
Americans would scarcely call this a
lively skirmish. AT Perryville, Murfrees-
boro, Chicamauga, Atlanta, Gettysburg,
Mission Ridge, the Wilderness and Spot
sylvania, the loss frequently reached, and
sometimes exceeded, 40 per cent. OFF,
cil statistics show that of the 5000, 900
men enlisted, there were killed in battle,
li,23s; died of wounds, 40, 205; died of
disease, 1876, 210; died of unknown
pattuaa Oh 1914. total 600 QdQ Tl,,a Z.
cludcs only those whose death while in
the army had been actually proved. To
this number should be added, first, &c.
900 men who are known to have died
while in the hands of the enemy as priso-
ners of war, and many others in the same
whose deaths are unrecorded;
second, a fair percentage of the 205, 794
men who are put down on the official
reports as deserters and missing in ac-
ton, for those who participated in the
wal know that men frequently disap-
peared who, it was certain had not de-
serted, yet could not be otherwise offic-
tally accounted for; third, thousands who
are buried in private cemeteries all over
the north, who died while home on fur
Tough. The nations dead are buried in
seventy-three national cemeteries, Of
which only twelve are in the northern
states.
The proportion of deaths from all
causes in the troops of each state was as
follows: Maine, l in 7; New Hampshire,
l in z; Vermont, 1 in Q; Massachusetts,,
/ in 8; Rhode Island, 1 in II; Connecti-
cut, l in 10; New York, l in 12; New
Jersey, l in 10; Pennsylvania, 1 in ~;
Delaware, 1 in 20; Maryland, 1 in 90;
Ohio, l in 8; Indiana, l in 8; Illinois, Il
in z; Michigan, 1 in Q; Wisconsin, l in
z; Minnesota, l in g.; Iowa, l in 8
(nearly @; Kansas, / in 8; California,
l in 90; West Virginia, l in 8; Ken
lucky, 1 in 10; Missouri, / in 9.-Cincin-
matt Commercial Gazette.